Chocolate Whisky Cakes and a Book Shop Special

Whose up for some cake? These mini dark chocolate whisky cakes covered with a dark chocolate buttercream flavoured subtly with whisky are totally scrumptious. They’re excellent for parties and feeding a crowd, but best kept for the adults.

Last Sunday our fabulous local independent bookshop hosted an evening of talk, slides and music at our nearby community centre. I made a few cakes for it, as I do. One of the four bakes were these rather decadent mini chocolate whisky cakes.

For a small market town, we do well for events. The Liskeard Book Shop hosts various talks from authors and the Liskerrett Centre provides all sorts of films, theatre, music, exhibitions as well as the fabulous vegetarian Hub Cafe. This was a particularly good one which started with a talk by Lisa Woollett about her beach combing activities along the Cornish coast together with a show of her stunning photographs. If you get the chance, do take a look at her books: Sea and Shore Cornwall and Sea Journal.

During the interval, everyone drank and devoured Michèle’s beautiful rolled pancake canapés and my little cakes. We were all then entertained by The Bookshop Band. The band consists of a couple with a vast array of musical instruments who sing songs inspired by the books they have read. They even get the authors to play along sometimes. It was a fantastic evening.

The chocolate whisky cakes went down a storm as did all the others. I tried to get a good balance of whisky to chocolate, so the chocolate was to the fore and the whisky was the supporting act. It worked.

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I am sending these chocolate whisky cakes off to Ness at JibberJabberUK for Love Cake. The theme this month is signature bakes and although the flavours may be different, I have become known now for making mini cakes like this.

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Henk Kooiman

17th May 2016 at 2:52 pm

Lovely cakes, again ! It surprises me that noone asks for the recipes of the 3 other ones 😉 I am rather intrigued by the those beautiful green thingies. And what is mesquite powder ? You seem to have a rather large cupboard full of secret ingredients. Best regards to Cornwall, Liskeard, the bookshop and of course Michèle.

Ah, the beautiful green thingies are already on the blog, only I made them small this time. In fact I made them for another of Michele’s events a few years ago. I think I put more matcha in this year’s batch though. They were a great conversation starter with everyone wondering what they were, but everyone seemed to like them – /2012/03/matcha-white-chocolate-cupcakes-we/ I keep trying to cut down on my ingredients, but it never quite seems to work.

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